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(for my original post-mitm headcanons, see here. Everything that realistically can fit in the gap between the shows is still canon to me)

Stevie and Cynthia are Leah's godparents. They were the only people in Leah's life who knew the truth, and regularly told Malcolm he was crazy for his choices. Malcolm is also Max's godfather because him and Stevie are just bonded like that 5eva

Dewey tried to live by his word and be much kinder to Jamie and Kelly than the older boys were to him, but did also follow through on throwing Jamie under the bus when he needed an out (first time he did it was when Lois caught him with a girl in his room)

All the nicknames the boys had for Kelly growing up just happened to be gender-neutral (Kid, Squirt, Buds) which always made them feel comfortable

Kelly also was the first of the Wilkerson kids to love wearing hand-me-downs

Jamie was on the swim team at school, and worked part-time as a lifeguard at the local pool as a teen. He also played the drums in a band

My previous chef headcanons for Reese still stand, but when he was about to hit 30, he basically panicked about everything being too good to be true and quit his job/blew up his life which led to him getting dumped by his long-term boyfriend (maybe fiancé)

In his 30s, Reese then just did a bunch of random jobs here and there, but never long enough to self-sabotage. During lockdown he dabbled with OnlyFans too (Lois shut that down fast). He also got married again, thinking the Francis x Piama approach might work for him... it didn't.

Dewey's music is mostly art for arts sake, but occasionally he dabbles in scoring for films/tv. Part of the funds of everything he does goes towards supporting special needs education, and also access to the arts for working class kids

The siblings (esp Dewey and Reese) relish in being uncles, and try and make up for the lost time with Leah. For Reese, this looks like helping her ace home ec, maybe by sabotaging her peers, and for Dewey it looks like giving her free concert tickets when he's in town

Tristan connects with the fam immediately, and while Piama wants to resent her for how much easier it was for her, she's just so darn likeable

Leah calls her grandparents to talk to them every day - it's one of Hal & Lois' fave parts of the day (and while he won't admit it, Malcolm kinda loves it too)

Leah also has a group chat with Hubert and Kelly, which is as odd as it sounds

Dewey 100% knew about Professor Dumb-Dumb, but asked for a cut of the income in exchange for silence, and that was just agreed. Jamie also knew but just enjoyed the content and never thought to tell

Not only did this experiment prevent plagiarism, it also taught her students to become better writers and thinkers.

"No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers, or delete keys."

Concerning the AI papers she kept receiving: “What’s the point of me reading it if it’s already correct anyway, and you didn’t write it yourself? Could you produce it without your computer?”

From one of her students,

“ 'While writing the essay, I had to talk a lot more, socialize a lot more, which I guess was normal back then...it’s drastically different from how we interact within the classroom in modern times. People are always on a laptop, always on the phone.' Without a delete key and the ability to correct every mistake, he paused to think more intentionally about his writing."

"Most students found their pinkies weren’t strong enough to touch-type, so they typed more slowly, pecking at the keyboard with their index fingers."

Another student said,

" 'This thing I handed in had pencil marks all over it and definitely did not look clean or finished. But it’s part of the process of learning that you’re going to make mistakes'..."

All this in a college level foreign language class. I cannot imagine attempting to pass a language class using AI and then expect to somehow magically speak it! Why pay buckets of money to be taught something and then refuse to actually learn it?

PHM has me in a chokehold so alas, I did not have time to make something new for Link's bday, so here instead is a big collage of some of my fave fanarts of him~